Quarter 1: Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Literature
Course Introduction
"The Middle Ages to ca. 1485"
Video: The Mother Tongue
AV PE1075 .S75 1986
Irish and Welsh Literature
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Beowulf
Personal statement that has been fitted to a particular
program/ institution
.
A: pp. 3-25
A: pp. 122-129
A: pp. 29-35; 109-21
A: pp. 36-108
Quarter 2: Medieval Literature
Introduction to Medieval Literature Geographic
Nomenclature; British Money; The British
Baronage
Romance: Marie de France
"Milun," "Lanval," Chevrefoil"
Sir Orfeo
Appendix: pp. A31-41 On your own; please read
now.
A: pp. 140-69
Read before 11/19
A: pp. 169-82
Read over Thanksgiving Break
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
and discuss when we return on 11/30. Answer
guiding questions.
A: pp. 238-64
11/19
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: Miller,
Wife, Pardoner, Nun's Priest, Parson's Intro.,
Retraction
Chaucer
A: pp. 264-342
12/2 & 12/8
"Ancrene Riwle, "Julian of Norwich and Margery
Kempe
video: Julian of Norwich AV BV5095.J8 J8 2000
Mystery Plays
A: pp. 137-39, 412-
12/10 & 12/14
A: pp. 439-77
12/16 & 12/18
Morality Plays: Everyman
A: pp. 507-29
1/6 &1/8
The Myth of Arthur's Return and Thomas's Le
Roman de Tristan
A: pp. 130-37
1/12 & 1/14
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
A: pp. 183-237
11/4 – 11/10
(last call on final drafts of personal statements.)
A: pp. 157-59; 371-97 11/13 & 11/17
Malory, Morte Darthur
A: pp. 480-500 Ready by 1/21 (last day I see you
of quarter 2.)
Quarter 3: Renaissance Literature
Introduction to The Sixteenth Century,
Video: The Story of English: A Muse of Fire AV PE1075
.S75 1986
Religions in England
Faith in Conflict
Women in Power
1B: pp. 531-63
Literary Terminology
Read The Faerie Queene
1B: Appendix: pp. A10-30
1B: 766-69, 775-934
The English Sonnet: Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser,
Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1
1B: 775-934
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1
1B: Appendix: pp. A44-47
1B: pp. 671-99
1B: pp. 721-65
Introduction to the 17th Century
1B: pp. 1341-70
video: Houseman directs Lear
AV PN2287.H7 S7
William Shakespeare, King Lear
1B: pp. 1251-1340
Quarter 4: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Introduction to the 17th Century
1B: pp. 1251-1340
The poetry of Donne and Jonson
pp. 1370-94, 1410-15, 1539-42, 1546-69,
1556-59
Cavalier & Metaphysical Poetry
Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 1-5
1B: 1897-1901; 1943-2044
THE RESTORATION: Introduction
1C: pp. 2177-2207
Restoration Poetry: Dryden, Wilmot, Behn, Swift, Pope
1C: pp. 2208-2212, 2296-2313, 2464-2479,
2665-2705
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
1C: pp. 2183-2285